Shake-ups in the WH staff. Joshua Bolten's pledge to re-energize the WH has started, but it is more like a recirculation of blood rather than an new infusion.
Scott McClellend resigns as press secretary, they might bring in
Fox new's Tony Snow. Karl Rove is stepping down from his 'policy coordinate' position to focus a bit more on political matters - as if there was a difference.
In all seriousness, I think the real story here continues to be that things are so bad at the White House, the level of denial and secrets to be kept, the self-bamboozlement and bad-faith so profound, that they just can't manage to bring in any new blood.
Will Rummy go? Joshua Marshall at TMP argues no, and why? Exactly for the same reason that Brian wants Rummy to go:
With Rumsfeld, or any other cabinet secretary, there's a related problem -- the importance of which has, I think, not been fully appreciated or aired. If Rumsfeld goes, you need to nominate someone else and get them through a senate confirmation. That means an open airing of the disaster of this administration's national security policy. Every particular; all about Iraq. Think how much they don't want that ...
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